"This thesaurus lists all the French communes including metropolitan France and overseas regions and departments. The current communes (including those created in 2018) are attached to their department; the delegated, merged or associated communes are attached to the corresponding current commune. The different entries are mapped to l'INSEE, GeoNames, PACTOLS, Rameau, Wikidata et Wikipédia."

The International Press Telecommunication Council (IPTC) creates and maintains sets of concepts – called a controlled vocabulary or a taxonomy – to be assigned as metadata values to news objects like text, photographs, graphics, audio and video files and streams. This allows for a consistent coding of news metadata across news providers and over the course of time.